
Charming gunslinger James West and Artemus Gordon, an inventor and master of disguise, are the country's first Secret Service agents, traveling the Old West at the behest of President Ulysses S. Grant, fighting villains, encountering beautiful women and dealing with fiendish plots to take over the world.

Dr. Loveless plans to rule by capturing an arsenal and a sub-treasury.

A newspaper contains a prediction that a magician will die in front of West and Gordon.